Design Like a Physicist
Physics 371 (previously 398DLP), Spring 2023
3 credit hours
Face-to-face (but masked, please), Friday afternoons, 1 pm - 5 pm, in Loomis 276.
Course documents
Slides shown by the Instructor in class
Guidelines for final report and presentation
Course packet and in-class material
- ⚛ GG's data logger schematic for spring 2021
- ⚛ Very simple circuit with an Arduino, a BME680, and an LCD. (spring 2021, in class, week 1)
- ⚛ Course packet, including a C++/Python refresher
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2018 "How to Present a Physics Talk"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2019 "How to Write a Technical Report"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2020 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's spring 2021 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
- ⚛ Prof. Cynthia D'Angelo's fall 2019 presentation: "Collaboration"
Spring 2023 student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues
The following reports should comprise PowerPoint files of about ten slides, and will be presented by all members of the group. See the Groups & projects page for the list of which group numbers are associated with which projects.- Week 2:
⚛ BME680 T/P/RH sensors - Group 5
⚛ DS3231 Precision RTC - Group 3 - Week 3:
⚛ Ultimate GPS - Group 1
⚛ MCP4725 DAC - Group 4 - Week 4:
⚛ LSM9DS1 - Group 2
⚛ ATmega 2560 Microcontroller - Group 8 - Week 6:
⚛ DPS - Group 2
⚛ Plantower - Group 7
Spring 2023 Week 5 project reports
Presentations are due by Thursday February 16th at 5:00PM. Talks were presented during the class on February 17th.Spring 2023 "Analysis Teaser" presentations
Spring 2023: List of items in the original box - to be returned on last weekly meeting
Fall 2022 student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues
The following reports should comprise PowerPoint files of about ten slides, and will be presented by all members of the group. See the Groups & projects page for the list of which group numbers are associated with which projects.- Week 2:
⚛ The Atmel ATmega2560 microcontroller. Group 1 - Week 3:
⚛ Electret microphones. Group 2 - Week 4:
⚛ BME680 T/P/RH sensors. Group 3 - Week 5:
⚛ I2C. Group 4 - Week 6:
⚛ GPS. Group 5 - Week 7:
⚛ How an LSM9DS1 “9-axis” accelerometer works. Group 1 - Week 8:
⚛ How a successive approximation ADC works. Group 2 - Week 9:
⚛ Interrupts. Group 3
Project reports
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⚛ I will post these at the end of the term.